Cyrillic (Slavic)

Introduction

The Cyrillic alphabet has traditionally been used to write Slavic languages (Russian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, and Ukrainian). The fonts shown on this page support Russian and, if noted, other Slavic languages.

The alphabet has also been extended to support dozens of other, non-Slavic languages. See my "Beyond Slavic" Cyrillic fonts page instead of this one if you're looking for a font that supports non-Slavic as well as Slavic languages. See my OCS Cyrillic fonts page if you're looking for a font that supports Old Church Slavonic.

Most fonts that are primarily for Chinese, Japanese, or Korean have been omitted from these samples for brevity.

Font Samples (page 1 of 4)

Aboriginal Serif[ show all samples ]
(abserif4_5.ttf from abserif.zip) Note: Extensive coverage of Latin & Cyrillic characters with diacritics as well as Canadian Syllabic characters that were omitted from the Unicode Standard (encoded in the private use area). Source: Free download from LanguageGeek.com Stats: Version 1.000 2004 initial release has 4,998 glyphs and 3 kerning pairsSupport: Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Cherokee, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Latin, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: Latin

Albany[ show all samples ]
(albanyc.ttf, albanybc.ttf, albanyic.ttf, and albanyzc.ttf) Source: Supplied with StarOffice 7.0, which is free for education and research purposes. Stats: Version 1.00 has 664 glyphs and 908 kerning pairsSupport: Cyrillic (Russian), Greek, Latin

Andale Sans[ show all samples ]
(ans_____.ttf, ansb____.ttf, ansi____.ttf, and ansbi___.ttf) Source: Supplied with StarOffice 7.0, which is free for education and research purposes. Stats: Version 3.00 - 1999 has 664 glyphs and 162 kerning pairsSupport: Cyrillic (Russian), Greek, Latin

Andale Sans UI[ show all samples ]
(soui.ttf) Source: Supplied with StarOffice 7.0, which is free for education and research purposes. Stats: Version 1.10 has 668 glyphs and 3,400 kerning pairsSupport: Cyrillic (Russian), Greek, Latin

ArbatDi[ show all samples ]
(Arbat.ttf) Note: Also has Cyrillic characters mapped to Latin Supplement and Latin Extended codepoints. Source: Free download from the (slow) ROOH website.Note: Most of the other fonts on this site either have no Latin font name or do not contain Cyrillic Unicode characters. Stats: Version v30.01.97 has 312 glyphs and 48 kerning pairsSupport: Cyrillic (Russian), Latin

Athena Unicode[ show all samples ]
(athena_u.TTF) Source: Free download from the University College London. Stats: Version 1.00 15-11-97 has 849 glyphs and no kerning pairsSupport: Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages), Greek (including polytonic), Latin

Book Antiqua[ show all samples ]
(bkant.ttf, antquab.ttf, antquai.ttf, and antquabi.ttf) Source: Supplied with various Microsoft products. Stats: Version 2.35 has 669 glyphs and no kerning pairsSupport: Cyrillic (Russian), Greek, Latin

Chandas[ show all samples ]
(Chandas.ttf) Note: Designed for Classical Sanskrit & Vedic (with accents). This font supports thousands of ligatures and is also usable for modern languages written with Devanagari.Style: Chandas uses the Calcutta/Kolkata style of Devanagari script while its sister font Uttara uses the Bombay/Mumbai style (although it's not evident with the characters used as the sample text). Source: Free download from Chandas. Stats: Version 1.2 has 5,002 glyphs and 1,597 kerning pairsSupport: Devanagari, Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages), Latin (with extensive coverage of letters with diacritics)OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari, Latin

Cumberland[ show all samples ]
(cumbc.ttf, cumbbc.ttf, cumbic.ttf, and cumbbic.ttf) Source: Supplied with StarOffice 7.0, which is free for education and research purposes. Stats: Version 1.01 has 667 glyphs and no kerning pairsSupport: Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages), Greek, Latin

Additional Information About These Font Samples

Font sizes for the various fonts above were adjusted to make them roughly the same size for the sake of comparison.

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Names, images, properties and additional background/non-technical information about related Unicode blocks and their characters can be found on decodeunicode's Cyrillic and Cyrillic Supplement pages (in English and German/Deutsch).